Extant taxon

Personalization

Knowledge management

Data sharing

Biology

Evolutionary biology

Computer science

Technological convergence

Alternative medicine

Engineering

Economics

Medicine

Blockchain

Telecommunications

World Wide Web

Management science

Position paper

Distributed ledger

Economic growth

Artificial intelligence

Computer security

Data science

Convergence (economics)

Pathology

IEEE Access

Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) currently lead to lively debates in academia and practice. AI processes data to perform tasks that were previously thought possible only for humans. DLT has the potential to create consensus over data among a group of participants in untrustworthy environments. In recent research, both technologies are used in similar and even the same systems. This can lead to a convergence of AI and DLT, which in the past, has paved the way for major innovations of other information technologies. Previous work highlights several potential benefits of a convergence of AI and DLT but only provides a limited theoretical framework to describe upcoming real-world integration cases of both technologies. In this research, we review and synthesize extant research on integrating AI with DLT and vice versa to rigorously develop a future research agenda on the convergence of both technologies. In terms of integrating AI with DLT, we identified researc...

On the Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Ledger Technology: A Scoping Review and Future Research Agenda